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A CELADON, DARK-BROWN AND RUSSET JADE For the identical subject carved on a red glass overlay bottle, see
RECTANGULAR BOTTLE Michael C. Hughes, Small Treasures: The Art Institute of Chicago,
1780-1850 Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2015, pp. 94-95, no. 71. The
Each side carved in relief to form an outline of a rounded rectangular author illustrates similar scenes to each main face of the bottle,
raised panel to the lower halves, one main side with a kneeling boy sandwiched between a ten-character poem carved through the
holding an inkstone above a fish in a rocky landscape surround with overlay to the narrow sides that reads: Xi yan yu tun mo, Peng cha he
lingzhi and clouds, the other with a boy fanning a brazier supporting bi yan that can be translated as: He washes the inkstone (in a pond)
a kettle with a plume rising to a stork flying above near pine and so (often) that fish swallow the ink, He brews his tea so that the cranes
rockwork, the narrow sides with ascending chilong, all below a flat avoid the clouds of smoke. The lines are derived from a pentasyllabic
shoulder and cylindrical neck with small opening, standing on a quatrain poem entitled 'Written on the Room Wall of my Friend' by the
rounded rectangular foot ring with deeply cut base. Northern Song hermit-poet, Wei Ye (960-1019).
2 3/16in (5.4cm) high, stopper
The complete poem indicates that the boy is washing his master's
$3,000 - 5,000 inkstone and inadvertently attracting the fish with the ink stain, and that
the master's assistant also brews the tea and burns incense, a pictorial
1780-1850 棕青玉刻浮雕人物圖鼻煙壺一件 evocation of the poem's sentiments of the high-minded individual to
escape the drudgery of city life, and replace with a life of introspection.
Provenance:
Private Collection, East Coast, USA
Robert Hall, London

來源：
私人收藏，東海岸，美國
Robert Hall，倫敦

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